Firm Overview

R. Benton Gray & Company, the firm found at BenGrayLaw.com, focuses on employment law matters – including unlawful termination, severance packages, sexual harassment, non-competes, litigation, appeals, alternative dispute resolution, and employment contract negotiations. The firm’s President, R. Benton (Ben) Gray, spearheads these legal services in a practice designed to help individual employees  – and former employees – to deal with their employers – and their former employers – on equal terms in the legal system. The firm’s mission is to provide its clients with large-firm quality at reasonable rates. Gray’s prior experience in a high profile, large-firm setting, where he represented a variety of clients including corporations and other large employers, makes that goal attainable. Each and every client receives Ben Gray’s personal attention.

Biography

Gray founded the independent practice of R. Benton Gray & Company in 1999 to better focus on representing individuals with employment issues. Gray concentrates on employment litigation and contract negotiations for individuals – ranging from executives to hourly employees of almost every imaginable background, in all kinds of employment settings – who have posed a wide variety of legal issues.
Before founding this firm, Gray practiced for 15 years with Thompson, Hine and Flory, then one of Cleveland’s “big five” defense firms. During that time, he concentrated his practice on litigation, with particular attention to employment and employee benefits law, representing a mix of clients.
Gray:

  • Received his bachelor’s degree with Honors from Kenyon College.
  • Received his J. D. with Honors from Duke Law School
  • Is a member in good standing of the Bar of the State of Ohio; the Bars of the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Ohio and the Southern District of Ohio; and the Bars of the Sixth and Seventh Circuit United States Courts of Appeals.
  • Has chaired the seminar, “Prizefighting Without Ear-Biting: Professionalism in Litigation.”
  • Authored a treatise chapter on “Jury Trials” in the Federal Courts for the American Inns of Court Foundation.
  • Is a member of the Ohio Bar Association and the Cleveland Bar Association, where he serves on the Judicial Selection Committee, the Certified Grievance Committee, and the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section.

 



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